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History Answers

Who said,
“Don’t fire

until you see
the whites of
their eyes?”

Jon Peasepottage
This quote is normally attributed
to Colonel William Prescott,
commanding the rebel forces in 1775
at the Battle of Bunker Hill during
the American Revolutionary War. But
eyewitness accounts offer conflicting
reports of which officer actually gave
the order and it may have been Major
General Israel Putnam or Brigadier
General John Stark. In any case, the
phrase was either already in common
use by then or it was independently
invented several times. Frederick the
Great at the Battle of Prague in 1757,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew
Agnew at the Battle of Dettingen in
1743, are both said to have issued
very similar orders.
Rebel forces at the Battle of
Bunker Hill had to conserve
ammunition, so they were ordered
to only fire at very close range

John F Kennedy was the Who was the first US president
first US president to have
a jet built specifically for to fly in Air Force One?
his use
Chloe Vilaine
Air Force One is a call sign, rather than a specific
plane and is used for whatever plane the
US President is currently
aboard. It was first used in
1953 for Dwight D Eisenhower
to avoid confusion with
commercial flights. But
Franklin D Roosevelt
was the first President
to have a dedicated
aeroplane for official
use, and he was
also the first sitting
President to fly Discover eight wild and wonderful
when he travelled
to a conference in facts about Beethoven, from
Morocco in 1943.
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Hampstead Railway opens crowned at Westminster Abbey. catches fire for the 13th time. half of the World Cup quarter
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today’s Northern tube line. Queen Victoria. later introduced. “hand of God” had intervened.

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